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Granted rights to both Nobles and Freeman
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"Lost Colony" sponsored by Sir Walter Raleeigh was founded on Roanoke Island, off South Carolina
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Capt. John Smith and 105 cavaliers in 3 ships landed on Virginia coast, started the first permanent English settlement in new world called Jamestown
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House of Burgesses, first representative assembly in New World elected July 30, 1619
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Puritan separatists left plymouth Englamd september 16 on the Mayflower reached Cape Cod November 19 and the mayflower compact was signed
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Roger Williams founded Providence, RI in june as a democratically ruled colony with separationof church and state charter granted and Harvard University
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British Parlement passed first Navigation Act
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led plantes against autocratic British Gov. Sir William Berkeley, Jamestown burned down,
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William Penn signed treaty with Delaware Indians Apr, 23
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Witchcraft delusionat salem, MA; 20 alleged withces executed by special court
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Benjamin Franklin published the first poor Richards Almanack
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Editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of libel Aug. 5 in New York after criticizing the British governers conduct
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Famous Sermon "Sinners in the hands of the Angry God" delivered at Enfield, MA July 8 by Jonathan Edwards
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French and Indian war began when Franch occupied Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
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Stamp Act enacted by Parliment Mar. 22 required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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Townshend Acts levied taxes on glass, painters lead, paper and tea. In 1770 all duties except on tea were repealed
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Intolerable Acts of parliament curtailed Massachusetts self-rule; barred use of Boston Harbor till tea was paid for. First Continental Congress held in Philadelphia sept. 5
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Patrick Henrey addressed Virgina convention, Mar. 23 said "Give me Liberty or give me death" Paul Revere rode to alert Patriots that British were on their way to Concord
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Common Sense famous proindependence pamphlet by Thomas Paine, was published Jan. 10: quickly sold some of 100,000 copies, Declaration of Independece was adopted July 4
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Articles of Confederation adopted by continental congress, Ft. Ticonderoga was captured by 8000 troops from canada
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George Rodgers Clark tool Vincennes in Feburary; John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard defeted Serapis in British North sea waters
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Bank of North America incorporated May 26; Cornwallis retired to Yorktown, VA
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Paris peace treaty, Sep. 3 recognizing American independence; The first regular daily newpaper, Pennsylvania evening post went on salein Philadelphia
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Shays's Rebellion of dept-ridden farmers in Massachusetts failed; Northwest Ordinance adopted July 13 by Continental Congress for Northwest territory, north of Ohio river west of New York
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George Washington was the first President and was chosen president by all electors voting; John Adams was vice president
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Bill of Rights submitted to states, Sept. 25; The First Bank of the U.S was chartered
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Washington declared U.S Neutrality in war between Britain and France; Eli whitney invented the Cotten gin
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Western Pennsylvania farmers protested liquor tax
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Washingtons farwell address as president delivered Sept. 17 warning against permanent alliances with foreign powers, big public dept, large military establishment, and devices of small, artful, enterprising minority
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Allen & Sedition Acts passed by Federalists June-July intendeded to silence political opposition; The War with France raids on U.S shipping and rejection of U.S diplomats
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John Marshall was named Supream Court chief justice; Thomas Jefferson who had received same number of eloctoral votes as Aaron Burr in 1800 election and won over Burr
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Suprem court in Marbury V. Madison, for the first time overturned a U.S law, and the Louisiana Purchase doubled U.S area.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition ordered by Pres. Thomas Jefferson to explore what is now northwest.
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Robert Fulton made first practical steamboat trip; The Embargo Act banned all trade with foreign countries.
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The War of 1812 had 3 main causes, Britain scized U.S ships trading with France, Britain had seized 4000 naturalized U.S sailors, Britian armed Indians
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Oliver H. Perry defeated British fleet at Battle of lake Erie
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British landed in Maryland in Aug. defeted U.S force and burned down the Capitol and White House.
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Spain seced Florida
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The Monroe Doctrine opposed European inter vention in the Americas.
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The Indian Removal Act providing land and some pay to Indians who agree to resettle in west
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William Lloyd Garrison began abolitionist newspaper; Nat Turner black slave in virginia led local slave rebelion killing 57 whites and 100 slaves killed
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Cherokee Indians forced to walk the "Trail of Tears" from Geogia to Oklahoma
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First message over first Telegraph line
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The Mexican War began after the annexation of Texas
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Gold was discovered in California; Lucretia Mott and Elizibeth Cady Stanton led The Womens rights Convention
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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California; Mexican territories made Fugitive Slave Act more harsh
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
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The Republican Party was formed
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Dred Scott decision by Supreme Court held that slaves did not become in a free state
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Edwin L. Drake drilled the First commerercially productive oil well
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First Pony Express; Abraham Lincoln was elected President in a 4-way race
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Confederates fires at Ft. Sumter
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President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all slavesin areas still in rebelion"
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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery; Robert E. Lee surendered
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The 14th Amendment providing for citizenship of all persons naturalized in the U.S; Louisa May Alcott published Little Women
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the 15th Amendment making race no bar to voting rights
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
